Olson, John (b. 1826) occupant of the south part of the Wm. Marshall farm, Cedar, 1869 to 1885, is a native of Denmark, where he grew to manhood and married Mary Jensen. In 1867, he came to America with a family of three children and located in Maine. Two years later he bought the sw 1/4, sec 33, Cedar township, this county, improved and occupied it the next six years. The buildings that he erected were completely demolished and the grove that he planted was partially destroyed by the tornado of 1893. During his residence here he returned to Denark and brought his aged mother that she might spend the remainder of her days at his home. She died at 98 in 1880 and was buried on the south side of an elevation on the south west corner of the farm near Cedar Creek. He was a member of the Lutheran church but his children became Seventh Day Adventists. In 1885, he moved to San Pasqual, Cal.

His family consisted of three children all of whom were born in Denmark, and bear the name of Johnson, after the Danish custome of calling the children after the first name of their father.

Henry Johnson in 1878, married Florence White, daughter of an Iowa clergyman, and in 1884, located in California. He taught several terms of school in the vicinity of Fonda and now has a family of six children. Frank, Harry, arthur, Nellie, Roy, and Jessie.

Lawrence Johnson, a teacher, after his removal to California married Viola Darling and has two children, Inez and Glenn.

Sophia Johnson, a teacher, pursued medical studies at Battle Creek, Mich., in 1895, graduated later from the California Medical College and has since been engaged in the practice of medicine at San Diego, Cal. She grew to womanhood at Fonda and, having a conviction that there was a more advanced sphere for woman than mere drudgery, pursued her education, relying upon her own resources. The success that has attended her unaided efforts is but another illustration of what a young lady may accomplish if her will and energies are rightly directed.